Contents

Preface

Credits

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 The Bob

2 Victoria College Debating Parliament

3 That Trinity Debate

4 The Case against Examinations

5 Arthur Richard Cragg

6 On the Frosh: An Editorial

7 Editorial in Undress (I)

8 James Delmer Martin

9 The Question of Maturity: An Editorial

10 Editorial in Undress (II)

11 Editorial in Undress (III)

12 The Pass Course: A Polemic

13 A Liberal Education

14 Education and the Humanities

15 Back to Work

16 For Whom the Dunce Cap Fits

17 Have We a National Education?

18 The Study of English in Canada

19 Address to the Graduating Class of Victoria College

20 Humanities in a New World

21 Greetings from the Principal

22 By Liberal Things

23 Senior Dinner Address

24 The Critical Discipline

25 Dialogue Begins

26 Push-Button Gadgets May Help—But the Teacher Seems Here to Stay

27 Autopsy on an Old Grad's Grievance

28 Introduction to Design for Learning

29 The Developing Imagination

30 To the Class of '62 at Queen's

31 The Changing Pace in Canadian Education

32 The Dean of Women

33 Convocation Address, University of British Columbia

34 The Principal's Message

35 We Are Trying to Teach a Vision of Society

36 Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship

37 Foreword to The Living Name

38 Education—Protection against Futility

39 The Classics and the Man of Letters

40 Charles Bruce Sissons, 1879–1965

41 New Programmes

42 Report on the "Adventures" Readers

43 Speculation and Concern

44 The Time of the Flood

45 The Instruments of Mental Production

46 Speech at a Freshman Welcome

47 The Knowledge of Good and Evil

48 A New Principal for Victoria

49 The Question of "Success"

50 A Meeting of Minds

51 Higher Education and Personal Life

52 The University and the Heroic Vision

53 Convocation Address, Franklin and Marshall

54 Book Learning and Barricades

55 The Social Importance of Literature

56 Research and Graduate Education in the Humanities

57 The Ethics of Change: The Role of the University

58 The University and Personal Life: Student Anarchism and the Educational Contract

59 An Ideal University Community

60 In Memoriam: Miss Jessie Macpherson

61 The Day of Intellectual Battle: Reflections on Student Unrest

62 Convocation Address, York University

63 Congratulatory Statement to Dartmouth

64 Hart House Rededicated

65 On Horace

66 A Revolution Betrayed: Freedom and Necessity in Education

67 The Definition of a University

68 Education and the Rejection of Reality

69 On Teaching Literature

70 Wright Report (I)

71 Wright Report (II)

72 Universities and the Deluge of Cant

73 The Critic and the Writer

74 Foreword to The Child as Critic

75 Preface to ADE and ADFL Bulletins

76 Address at the Installation of Gordon Keyes as Principal of Victoria College

77 Presidential Address at the MLA

78 Reminiscences

79 The Teacher's Source of Authority

80 Address on Receiving the Royal Bank Award

81 Installation Address as Chancellor

82 The Chancellor's Message

83 Criticism as Education

84 The Beginning of the Word

85 Installation of Alvin A. Lee

86 The View from Here

87 The Authority of Learning

88 Language as the Home of Human Life

89 On Living inside Real Life

90 Farewell to Goldwin French

91 Foreword to English Studies at Toronto

92 Preface to On Education

93 Preface to From Cobourg to Toronto

94 Unpublished Introduction to Beyond Communication

95 Woman Heads University

Appendix: Educational Pieces Omitted from This Volume

Notes

Emendations

Index

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